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| re: Kiss Me, Kate and The Band’s Visit Yesterday | |
| Posted by: theaterdude 06:26 pm EST 02/18/19 | |
| In reply to: Kiss Me, Kate and The Band’s Visit Yesterday - BillEadie 09:59 am EST 02/18/19 | |
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| I'm curious, why did you not plan to see The Band's Visit (last year's Best Musical winner) but make plans to see a Kiss Me Kate revival? Is it solely because of what you wrote about not thinking it would make a very good musical? I'm so glad you were pleasantly surprised, it's a very special piece. | |
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| re: Kiss Me, Kate and The Band’s Visit Yesterday | |
| Posted by: BillEadie 02:10 am EST 02/19/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Kiss Me, Kate and The Band’s Visit Yesterday - theaterdude 06:26 pm EST 02/18/19 | |
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| Thanks for this question. This trip, i was very deliberate about planning ahead. The two I absolutely had to see were “Merrily” and MFL, with Laura Benanti. I picked “True West” and “Kiss Me, Kate’ because I was interested in seeing them and because that made three Roundabout productions and I could get a discount for buying all three at once. I added “Mockingbird” after Telecharge sent me a post card with a discount offer (the first and last time Telecharge had done so). To be fair, I also wanted to focus on current work, rather than things that had been running for a while. I had two slots that weren’t filled: Wednesday evening, when I arrived, and Sunday evening. The person I was visiting enjoys going to the theatre with me but has a tolerance level that’s lower than mine on this sort of trip. So, the Wednesday slot was filled with a dinner that both of us particularly enjoyed. I vacillated on the Sunday evening slot, until I noticed that “The Band’s Visit” had a 7pm performance. It was tight, going between a 5:45 end to KMK and arriving in time for a 7pm start of TBV, but I made it. And, it helped that my flight back was late in the afternoon on Monday and that my host had Monday off, so we got more visiting time in. I do enjoy the challenge of writing commentary on the shows I see as I go, and the people who read my full-blown theatre reviews in San Diego seem to like knowing what I thought about the shows I saw in NYC. Until next time, Bill, in San Diego |
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